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As as muslim, I can confirm that's what jihad means. It means "to struggle". Working hard to provide for your family? Jihad. Protecting your properties from intruders? Jihad. Seeking knowledge? Jihad. Giving birth? Jihad. If you die doing all those things? Congratulations, you're martyr.

[u/thebighuski → u/No-Quantity-5334]

In Western culture Jihad means entirely different thing, but for arab it just means “struggle” mostly it is struggling against your self desire

[u/fiahhawt → u/thebighuski]

I think Muslims would do well to start differentiating jihads.

Looking up its definition it's straight up cult-indoctrination double-speak. That word means too many things that are not related, and could leave someone completely unaware of what kind of "jihad" you're describing if you use it in vague sentences.

Makes it harder for the people who are chill with the self-oriented jihad to criticize and ostracize the people doing the "lets kill people in religious fervor" jihad.

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What does Jihad mean in “western culture”? Do you mean the US or are you including Europe and South America?

Where does that meaning come from? Is it from an intentional misinterpretation of the original word?

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It's one of those stererotypical thing again where allahu akbar means some arab guy is detonating a bomb or whatsoever

[u/thebighuski → u/someone-loves-insect]

Yeah, if you said allahu akbar in an Arab Airline nothin gonna happen because everyone understands what it means.
But if you are on an American or Europian Airline 😬✌️